then you can protect using a robots.txt file. Here is an online tool you can
use to do that
http://www.instantposition.com/robots_txt_file_generator.cfm
Thanks,
Ketan
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From: Dain Anderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 12:14 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Controling spider access
You could use the META tag for robots:
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">
I'm sure there are other solutions, but this might get you going in the
right direction.
-Dain
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> My company has an affiliate program set up with other webmasters. The
> webmasters put a banner on their site that links to ours with a unique
> referral ID. The problem we are having is that several search engines are
> spidering these other sites and then following the links from them to our
> site. This way, it looks like the web site is sending traffic to our
site.
> This is a problem. What we would like to do is catch this type of
activity
> and keep it from being recorded in the database for that web site. We've
> thought up some clunky solutions, but I thought I would ask in case
someone
> knows of an elegant way to handle this.
>
> Todd
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